Bill Sell: 'We're very upset' with NCAA over Cheick Diallo's eligibility ordeal
Bill Self and the University of Kansas have waited for months for the NCAA to give a ruling regarding the eligibility of freshman forward Cheick Diallo.
Diallo, a native of Mail who attended Our Savior New American in Centreach, New York, committed to Kansas in April and even earned six credits over the summer.
He's allowed to practice -- and even allowed to travel with the team for the Maui Invitational -- but has still not been cleared to play by the NCAA.
Self has grown tired of the waiting. According to Rustin Dodd of the Kansas City Star, the university has hired independent groups to review courses in question.
“Needless to say, we’re very upset,” Self told Rustin Dodd of the Kansas City Star. “The NCAA was given a list of 19 things 11 days ago on discrepancies or missteps or things that we really struggled with, and they said they would respond to us in writing, and they have yet to do that. So we decided to go ahead and take matters into our own hands. And we have found out that everything they have told us in why he wasn’t eligible — they even brought up class attendance, which wasn’t true, they brought up curriculum changes that weren’t true — they brought up several things that weren’t 100 percent accurate.”
“If we were going to do their job for them and research all this stuff, all we would have known was back in early September what the problems were. And we could have done this and this young man would have never been in question about his eligibility, at least from our standpoint and based on what they have told us.”
Kansas enters the Maui Invitational on the heels of a 79-73 loss to Michigan State, a game in which the Jayhawks were outrebounded by 10.
They are back in action on Monday against Chaminade in the Maui quarterfinals.